{"id":1017,"date":"2012-12-20T09:21:44","date_gmt":"2012-12-20T15:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ewgreenlee.wordpress.com\/?p=1017"},"modified":"2012-12-20T09:21:44","modified_gmt":"2012-12-20T15:21:44","slug":"mon-mothball-de-granny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allivarcreative.com\/?p=1017","title":{"rendered":"Mon Mothball De Granny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ewgreenlee.wordpress.com\/2012\/12\/20\/mon-mothball-de-granny\/perfume\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1037\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1037\" alt=\"Perfume\" src=\"http:\/\/ewgreenlee.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/12\/perfume.jpg?resize=400%2C252\" width=\"400\" height=\"252\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today, as usual I got side tracked on Facebook regarding a discussion on lady&#8217;s perfumes.\u00a0 One of my new friends commented that she was an addict for perfume and she was getting some of the original Bill Blass.\u00a0 From there it went downhill very quickly due to yours truly.\u00a0 Soon I will have no friends and my addiction to Facebook will end.\u00a0 It is my evil plot.\u00a0 I commented that it is good not to get a Bill Blass clone, they must smell.<\/p>\n<p>Then a gentleman entered the conversation and stated Chanel #5 was his favorite.\u00a0 Soon a real perfume connoisseur shouted out names I&#8217;ve never heard, such as Feraud for Women, but also Bvlgari Rose Essentielle, Burberry Brit for Women, Juicy Couture, and Cabotine de Gres.\u00a0 I realized at that moment I was dealing with the elite.\u00a0 So what was my contribution to this elite conversation?<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I bought my wife this one named AMBUSH.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You see, all those above remind me of an aged blue cheese, not something I&#8217;d like to chase after with amorous exuberance.\u00a0 It&#8217;s all in the wording for me.\u00a0 If they had a perfume with &#8220;Bacon&#8221; in the wording, I&#8217;d come running like a hound dog in heat and on the scent.\u00a0 I&#8217;d be burrowing down into my wife&#8217;s neck like a sparkling vampire. Oh, TMI.<\/p>\n<p>Then the male commenter stated one lady should try Fendi.\u00a0 I was out of my league, I freely admit it.\u00a0 But the undaunted creative writer in me would not let this pass.\u00a0 Visions of new creative perfume brands came to my mind, here&#8217;s the short list:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ActivOn No. 1 (Massage therapist sold separately)<\/li>\n<li>IcyHotness No. 2<\/li>\n<li>Shades De Grey No. 50 (complete with complimentary whip and chains)<\/li>\n<li>Compost Le Couture (An earth wormy bouquet)<\/li>\n<li>La Canadian Bacon de Grease (My personal favorite)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Somehow the conservation turned to old granny&#8217;s smelling like Vick&#8217;s vapor rub, or even worse mothballs.\u00a0 This is where my opportunity presented itself.\u00a0 I asked the person if they had ever smelled Mothballs.\u00a0 Not knowing where I was leading her, she replied her granny&#8217;s house was Mothball city.\u00a0 Being one of the oldest jokes my mother loves to pull on people I asked, &#8220;How did you get their little legs apart?&#8221;\u00a0 She did not reply, I think I stunned her.\u00a0 Amazingly I was not removed from her friends list in a nanosecond.<\/p>\n<p>Another lady joined in and wrote about her grandmothers bedroom smelling so bad of mothballs and that if you slept in her bed you couldn&#8217;t move for all the quilts she had stacked up.\u00a0 Does this sound familiar my loyal followers?\u00a0 Refer back to my <a href=\"http:\/\/ewgreenlee.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/03\/the-female-code-october-2012-edition-50-shades-of-quilts\/\">Female Code &#8211; October 2012 Edition<\/a>. I&#8217;ll have see if my wife&#8217;s Doomsday inventory of quilts are starting to smell like Mothball City, Oklahoma.<\/p>\n<p>As a CPA, financial planner, author, soon to be real estate agent, and all around nutcase, I am always looking to expand upon profit making ideas and products.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve listed 5 products above I may offer in 2013, provided we survive tomorrows Mayan calendar prophecy.\u00a0 I am considering adding <em>Mon Mothball de Granny<\/em> to my offerings.\u00a0 Who will be the first to order?<\/p>\n<p>Do you have a perfume idea that you think would sell?\u00a0 Tell me what it is and I&#8217;ll develop it for you.\u00a0 After R&amp;D, marketing, and distribution expenses; my royalty and executive compensation package, I can promise you a 1\/1,000% royalty, of remaining profits.\u00a0 Sounds fair doesn&#8217;t it?\u00a0 Submit your ideas today, today, today (echo sound).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, as usual I got side tracked on Facebook regarding a discussion on lady&#8217;s perfumes.\u00a0 One of my new friends commented that she was an addict for perfume and she was getting some of the original Bill Blass.\u00a0 From there it went downhill very quickly due to yours truly.\u00a0 Soon I will have no friends [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[60,139,244,529,561,565,646,850,959,1020],"class_list":{"0":"post-1017","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-random-neuron-firing","7":"tag-50-shades-of-grey","8":"tag-bacon","9":"tag-chanel","10":"tag-gifts","11":"tag-grandmother","12":"tag-granny","13":"tag-humor","14":"tag-mothballs","15":"tag-perfume","16":"tag-quilts","17":"czr-hentry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allivarcreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allivarcreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allivarcreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allivarcreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allivarcreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/allivarcreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allivarcreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allivarcreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allivarcreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}